Showing Life Among Giants by Bill Roorbach

This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David Lizard Hochmeyer s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents deaths. It s a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a world-famous ballerina and her English rocker husband, and a sister who s as brilliant as she is unstable. A wildly entertaining, plot-twisting novel of murder, seduction, and revenge rich in incident, expansive in character, and lavish in setting "Life Among Giants"is an exhilarating adventure. Editors pick for Amazon s Best of 2012 "Shelf Awareness"Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012 "Columbus Dispatch" s Top Books of 2012